Sarah Hoyt’s having a bad week, and I suggested that we all link-bomb her by writing up our little “copious spare time” issues. There’s a lot more that I want to have on that list, that I’ve simply shelved. More skill at 3d modelling, improved language skills, writing up a manual of sabre for my instructor’s lineage, gaining the ability to write at least marginally-useful code in a 21st-century programming language, etc etc.

But what I’m really curious about is… where do all these other people get the time for t.v.? I don’t mean watching it: I have something from Netflix running in the background all the time, while I’m doing other stuff. Because dinosaurs. Or zombies. Or Curious George.

Maybe what separates us “odds” out of the mix, no matter how relatively mundane the interest, whether it’s old cars, Incan astrology, or the age-old feud between Phlan and Melvaunt that doesn’t actually exist between because neither do Phlan or Melvaunt, is “are you happy to work like a beast, take care of basics, and then kick back?” Or are you constantly stretching and pushing and doing?

Of course, other people I know, like my twin, have to constantly stretch and push and do just to stay current in their fields. This isn’t some sort of psychological preening – I work less hard for money than a lot of other folks do, and might work harder there if I had the requisite skills. But at the same time… how many people out there have “no more projects” as their New Year’s Eve resolution, every year, mean it, and have utterly failed it by February?

There’s something weird about people like that. Being one of them, I ought to be able to say what it is, but, I can’t.

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“No more projects!” was definitely one of my New Year’s Resolutions; now I’m looking at June as my “I am totally finally for realsies done!” date. Late June. So that I can work on all those “in my copious spare time” projects. Oh, and all the new things coming down the pike. :p